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> “This comcast outage is a great reminder of why it's still important to download and own physical copies of music, movies, etc.,” @krakinov tweeted. This is
by bryans 5y ago
> “This comcast outage is a great reminder of why it's still important to download and own physical copies of music, movies, etc.,” @krakinov tweeted.
This is a bizarrely overdramatic response to one provider being down for an hour, and I can't imagine why the author felt the need to include it, other than to further dramatize their own dramatization of a rather innocuous situation.
- KoftaBob 5y ago> further dramatize their own dramatization of a rather innocuous situation. That's exactly why they included it. It's the internet equivalent of when journalists go out and interview random pedestrians to get their reactions/commentary to some event. They want a soundbite that will stick in your mind after reading/viewing the news segment, regardless of how useful the commentary really is. As long as most news is for-profit, and therefore their incentives lie primarily in maximizing engagement/ratings/ad revenue, they will continue to optimize for those things with different iterations of what is essentially clickbait. Even here on the relatively intellectual HN, I regularly see articles posted that have very clickbaity and misleading titles.
- rstupek 5y agoNow journalists don't go out and interview people for those reactions they just troll twitter and publish articles which are essentially multiple tweets.
- wolverine876 5y agoHow is someone's Twitter comment evidence for a rant against journalists? Do you see such a problem in the OP?
- jasonpeacock 5y ago"This power outage is a great reminder of why it's still important to maintain and own wood stoves, kerosene lanterns, candles, etc." Next he's going to talk about keeping a horse in a stable out back in case the gas station runs out of fuel.
- iso1210 5y agoI don't know about you, but if I lived in a place where the power goes off I'd certainly have good torches and non-electric heating. (Of course if internet goes down my phone has tons of spotify tracks downloaded onto it, so I'm sure I'll cope)
- stanleydrew 5y agoSure, but light and heat are pretty fundamental to meeting a basic level of comfort. Whether or not I can listen to my favorite album without internet access isn't.
- outworlder 5y ago> Whether or not I can listen to my favorite album without internet access isn't. What about being able to work?
- BenjiWiebe 5y agoThis comment thread is about someone specifically calling out having an offline copy of music and movies.
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